- live in an impenetrable fortress from which they launch raids on the innocent, never suffering the consequences of the evil they commit
- ruled by the most cruel and decadent amongst them, but don’t do anything about it because they dream of being on top of the horrific pyramid of torture and pain one day
- innately cruel and horrific society where seeing others suffer is the only source of pleasure
- slavers
- violence is the only language they understand
- sense of racial superiority
- entire sectors of society dedicated to coming up with evil and sadistic weaponry with which to commit war crimes
- hopelessly addicted to drugs of all kinds
- complete lack of compassion
- piracy
- love to torture
Actually true
I apply this to any media basically. The author said some dumb shit? No he didn’t. The sequel revealed this thing was way less cool than you imagined? No it didn’t, what sequel?
This is even true canonically, there’s no omnipresent narrator in 40K and even 1st person PoV can actually lie or be lied to.
There’s this ttrpg that I’ve been running for my friend which is so perfectly awful I’ve been treating the entire book as a hostile source written by the villains to besmirch the good name of the obviously heroic faction.
RaHoWa lol
I mean honestly if it’s all just fiction then who cares
‘This guy wrote down his imagination and his imagination has more validity than my take on his imagination’